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Adams Family Papers
Digital images and transcriptions of the correcpondence of John and Abigail Adams, 1762-1801, and the diary of John Adams, 1753-1804, are offered by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

AddALL.com
AAddALL is a free service that compares the prices and services among 41 on-line bookstores for new, used and out-of-print books.

Africans in America
This PBS site offers narrative, historical documents, and scholarly commentary on the beginnings and ending of slavery in the United States, 1460-1865.

Afro-American Sources in Virginia
A Guide to Manuscripts, edited by Michael Plunkett. Also included is Guide to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina edited by Timothy D. Pyatt. These are lists of manuscript resources which list the library where one can find the original document.

Alexandria Archaeology
Perhaps the finest public archaeology program on the East Coast.

America: History and Life
Indexes over 2,000 historical journals published worldwide. Approximately 16,000 new entries are added each year. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

American Cabinetmakers Database
Indexes over 36,000 records and is searchable by Maker name, Maker's State, and Form of cabinetry or Trade. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

The American Colonist's Library
A substantial listing of literature and documents that contributed to the formation of the politics, culture, and ideals of colonial America. Arranged chronologically.

American Historical Review
Full-text articles, June 1999 to present. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)

American Journeys
This digital library and learning center contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project hired field workers to collect the life histories of former slaves. The full-text of the transcripts for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states, are now available and searchable. (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920. This collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress includes Playford's 1698 edition of "The Dancing Master" and the 1798 "Gentleman and Lady's Companion" which includes etiquette as well as dancing instructions. Read the essay on 18th-century dance.

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.

Ancestry.com
Search census records, and other genealogical resources including the Periodical Source Index, the American Genealogical-Biographical Index, and Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s. Browse by geographic location. The Virginia section includes publications such as Virginia Apprentices, 1623-1800. (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Architecture of Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Architecture Electronic Archive Center (JAEAC) is an "in process" archive that brings together materials related to the architecture of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

Architecture Visual Resources Library, University of California, Berkeley.
SPIRO (Slide & Photograph Image Retrieval Online), a visual online public access catalog, is available on the World Wide Web, and currently represents 57,000 images in the Architecture Visual Resources Library collection. AVRL's subject indexing in SPIRO provides in depth access to critical pictorial materials in the history of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. Instructions on the use of SPIRO, and information about SPIRO are included at the site.

Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
The AAG Catalog describes the item level records of thousands of photographic images in the collections of the Archives of American Gardens that relate to the history of landscape architecture and gardening in the United States.

Art Index & Art Index Retrospective
Art Index indexes articles from periodicals, 1984 to present, published throughout the world, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Art Index Retrospective indexees international art periodicals published between 1929-1984. (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy; excelling any thing of the kind ever yet published ... Also, the order of a bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are to be placed upon the table, in the present taste. Glasse, Hannah, Mrs. fl. 1747; published in Alexandria, by Cottom and Stewart,1805. "First American edition". Full text PDF Version.

ArtFact Online
The world's largest complete and independent online resource of art, antiques, collectibles and jewelry auction sales records. (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

The ARTFL Project from the University of Chicago offers nearly 2000 fulltext French texts, 13th-20th centuries, and includes the Encyclopedia Diderot. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
Resources for those involved in living historical farms, agricultural museums and outdoor museums of history and folklife.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Hundreds of images have been selected, described and categorized. One can search by keyword or browse by topic.

The Avalon Project : 18th-Century Documents
Yale University Law School, New Haven Connecticut, mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

BCIN, the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
Available online since 1987, BCIN is a trusted resource for professionals, museums and other heritage organizations. It now contains nearly 200,000 citations, including the first 34 volumes of the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA), published between 1955 and 1997.

Bookfinder.com
A one-stop search site that lets users view the collections of over 30,000 booksellers and over 30 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Boston University Department of Archaeology
Major historical archaeology program directed by Mary Beaudry and Ricardo Elia.

British History Online
The digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period.

The British Library

British Library's Images Online

Built in America
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. This online presentation of the HABS/HAER collections includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials. Since the National Park Service's HABS and HAER programs create new documentation each year, digital images will continue to be added to the online collections.

Canadian Heritage Information Network
Often referred to as "CHIN", offers resources for museum professionals.

A Catalogue of 18th-Century British Mezzotint Satires in North American Collections
The Catalog includes over 600 mezzotint print satires or drolls from London printsellers, 1760-1800, that survive in North American collections.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional documents and Debates, 1774-1875.
The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life.

Collage
An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. By the Corporation of London and iBase Image Systems.

Colonial National Historical Park
National Park Service site for the park encompassing Jamestown, Yorktown, and the Colonial Parkway.

Colonial Williamsburg Journal Index (Database)- An author/title keyword index, 1978 - 2004, to the colorfully illustrated journal which features the culture, arts and political heritage of Virginia's 18th-century colonial capital. Photocopies of articles can be requested through interlibrary loan. Sample articles from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal are available on the Internet.

The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter Index, 1980 - 2004 (PDF) is published by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Department of Interpretive Education to index their publication,The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter.

Colonial Williamsburg Research Reports (Database) - Search historical, architectural, archaeological, and cultural reports on 18th-century Williamsburg by author, title, and date. The reports, written by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation staff are available in the Reference Department or on microfiche through interlibrary loan. Updated July 2004. Some of these reports have been digitized .

Commonplace
Common-place is a common place for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture. A bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine, Common-place speaks--and listens--to scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested in American history before 1900.

Company of Military Historians
An educational, scientific, and literary institution devoted to the study and dissemination of "information on the uniforms, equipment, history, and traditions of members of the Armed Forces of the United States worldwide and other nations serving in the Western Hemisphere."

Conserve O Grams
Short, focused leaflets about caring for museum objects from the Museum Management Program of the National Park Service.

The Costumer's Manifesto offers a page of links for 18th-century costume.

The Country House Database
The Country House Database represents a first attempt at listing country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them.

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center World-renowned archaeological training program.

The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, 1701-1732
The richest and most important Virginian of his day, Carter was active in government and corresponded widely both within the colony and with merchants in England. Read the transcriptions of his surviving papers in this ongoing project.

Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery
The Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery is a Web-based initiative designed to foster inter-site, comparative archeological research on slavery in the greater Chesapeake region.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts --U. Wisconsin, Madison
Search the content of selected full-text books from this screen or read books full-text on the web.
   Halfpenny, William, Useful architecture (London, 1760).
   Langley, Batty, The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs . . (London, 1756).
   Pain, William, Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant. (London, 1788)
   Pain, William, The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor . . . (London, 1792).

Early Americas Digital Archive
A a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.

Early Encounters in North America
A collection of accounts of the early interactions of the peoples - Native American, European, African and Asian. Over 1000 accounts from the 15th - 20th centuries are currently in this expanding database. Browse by date, environment, peoples, places and more, or search the text by keyword or author. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Early Music
This scholarly journal published its first full-text issue with Volume 32 (February 2004 issue).

Early Virginia Religious Petitions
Presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities.

Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia. An online archive of thousands of electronic texts and images.

FirstSearch
Search WORLDCAT, a database of library holdings from research, academic and public libraries of North America.(CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research - University of Massachusetts, Boston
Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research is a leader in environmental archaeology studies, under the direction of Dr. Stephen Mrozowski.

Flowerdew Hundred Museum
Important 17th-century site across the James River. For many years excavations were directed by Dr. Norman Barka, and later by James Deetz.

Fortress of Louisbourg
A thriving seaport and capital of Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island) was one of France's key centres of trade and military strength in the New World in the 18th century. The website includes a technical forum on reconstructed 18th century sites and searchable databases of their research library holdings.

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
offers complete page images of the 397 titles in the African American Pamphlet Collection, as well as searchable electronic texts and bibliographic records. Most pamphlets were written by African-American authors, though some were written by others on topics of particular importance in African-American history.

Gabriel: The Gateway to Europe's National Libraries

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history by offering fellowships, awards, and co-sponsoring publications such as "Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life".

Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society
The Society's holdings of African American materials consist largely of the records of slaves and slavery in the Old Dominion, the great bulk of which is concentrated on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Collections are listed with brief descriptions and can be browsed or searched by keyword.

HeritageQuest Online
Search selected U.S. census records. (CWF IP address only. Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Historic Annapolis
Major center for "critical archaeology" studies, directed by Mark Leone.

Historic Wallpaper: A Guide to Resources
Provides basic information on the history of wallpaper and historic wallpaper reproductions.

History E-Book Project
American Council of Learned Societies sponsors this database of over 800 full-text scholarly historical studies. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

History of Medicine
Offerings from the National Library of Medicine include PubMed (the index to medical journals for articles in medical history) and Images From the History of Medicine.

The International Museum of the Horse
Exhibits on the history of the horse and information on 85 horse breeds.

International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800.
The Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University, aims to advance the scholarship of young historians not only through the annual seminars, but also through this web site that includes abstracts of dissertations, brief information about research in progress and fellowship information.

Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital library of 18th- and 19th-Century British journals.

Jamestown Rediscovery
Excavations at the site of 1607 James Fort, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
The University of Virginia offers over 1,700 electronic texts by or to Jefferson as well as writings about Jefferson. Included is the Jeffersonian Cyclopedia with the added feature of searching for quotations by keyword.

Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
Documents digitized include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes ranging in date from 1606 to 1827

Journal of American History
Full-text articles, June 1999 to present. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Journals of the Continental Congress
The Journals of the Continental Congress are the records of the daily proceedings of the Congress -- the First Continental Congress met from September 5 to October 26, 1774; the Second Continental Congress from May 10, 1775, to March 2, 1789.

The Kitchen Musician Website offers information and sources for historic Celtic, English and American music.

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789
The surviving correspondence of the 344 delegates who attended the Continental Congresses during and after the American Revolution.

Library of Virginia Online Catalogs and Collections
The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, maintains several online catalogs and finding aids, including the general LVA catalog, Archives and Manuscripts collection, the Newspapers in Virginia Database, and Land Record Database.

Monticello
Major historical archaeology program directed by Dr. Fraser Neiman.

Mount Vernon
George Washington ...

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Craftsmen Database
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is dedicated to exhibiting and researching the regional decorative arts of the early South and showcases the furniture, paintings, textiles, ceramics, silver, and other metalwares made and used in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee through 1820. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Museum of London
Web site of the major archaeological unit in Britain.

Musical Instrument Makers Forum

The National Agricultural Library
Beltsville, Maryland. Search AGRICOLA, NAL's Online Public Access Catalog and Journal Article Citation Index.

National Library of Scotland
The Online Catalogues include lists of accounts of "Scots Abroad".

New England Ancestors
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, is the country's oldest genealogical organization. Search primary and secondary sources by personal name.

University of North Carolina Research Labs of Archaeology
Well-respected program in historical archaeology.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Oxford English Dictionary
The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for passwords.)

Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Plant Information Online: Welcome to the Arboretum
The University of Minnesota, Andersen Horticultural Library.(CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia
A collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.

Preservation Briefs
The National Park Service's Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings publications, Issues 1-41 are available fulltext. The web version of the Briefs differs somewhat from the printed version in appearance: many illustrations and captions are new, and illustrations are typically in color.

Probate Inventory Database
Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 300+ transcriptions recorded between 1740-1810, published full-text on the Internet by Gunston Hall.

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834
A fully searchable online editon of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials. Search by name, place, crime, punishment or browse by date.

The Public Record Office
The national archive of England, Wales and the United Kingdom brings together and preserves the records of central government and the courts of law, that pan an unbroken period from the 11th century to the present day.

Rare and Antiquarian Book Vendors
A list of dealers on the Internet from AcqWeb.

Royal Ontario Museum
Major archaeological unit in eastern Canada.

Runaway Slave Advertisements from 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers
Search runaway/captured slave advertisements from the Virginia Gazette, 1736-1775.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
An introduction to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary with examples, illustrations and links.

Rare and Antiquarian Book Vendors

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
The Library of Congress has digitized and transcribed over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.

Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education
Research and education in the conservation, preservation, technical study and analysis of museum collection items and related materials.

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Art Inventories Catalog - The Inventories contain over 335,000 records describing American paintings and sculptures. The Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 is a national census of paintings created by American artists working prior to 1914.

Smithsonian Institution Decorative Arts Galaxy
Bibliographic and full text resources including these fulltext books.
Higgins, W. Mullinger. The House Painter (1841)
Martinet, François Nicholas. Ornithologie (1773-1792)

Sonoma State Archaeological Studies Center
Important CRM archaeological program in central California, directed by Adrian and Mary Praetzellis.

Society for Historical Archaeology
Web site of the major organization of American historical archaeologists.

Stratford Hall
Innovative Web site which includes an interactive tour of the house and grounds. Check out the archaeology section and the kid's page.

Timber Framers Guild of North America
A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the benefits, beauty, and practicality of a timber frame structure

Virginia Colonial Records Project
Between 1955 and 1985, project agents visited more than one hundred libraries and archives in Great Britain, Ireland, and France to survey their collections for Virginia-related documents. The project has generated 14,704 Survey Reports and Colonial Williamsburg acquired 963 reels of microfilmed documents. The Electronic Index contains more than 500,000 personal- name and ship-name entries.

Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780
Search the Virginia Gazette Index by subject and link to the full-text of the article.

Virginia Heritage Project
Guides to archival and manuscript collections from 20 institutions in Virginia.

Virginia Historical Society
Click on "Research" to search their extensive online catalog of books, journals and manuscripts.

Virginia Records, 1606-1737
Thomas Jefferson collected early Virginia Records, including the Records of the Virginia Company.

Virtual Jamestown
Virtual Jamestown is a product of collaboration between Virginia Polytechic Institute, Blacksburg, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
Washington, D.C., approximately 147,000 images online.

William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research
Web site for the contract archaeology program at the College of William & Mary.

William and Mary Quarterly
1892-1993 Browse or search the full text of the journal. (CWF users only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

William Poole Designs

Williamsburg Regional Library

Williamsburg Research Libraries Partnership
Links to the libraries of the College of William and Mary and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Winterthur Portfolio
Full-text articles begin with the Spring 2002 issue. Table of Contents available for 1995-2001 issues. (CWF IP address only; Contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)

The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799
All 38 volumes of John C. Fitzpatrick's 1931-44 edition are reproduced by the University of Virginia.

 

 

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